Why were flamethrowers ever allowed?
Are they not the craziest and cruelest infantry weapon there is?
The whole concept is pretty nuts when you step back and think about it, pouring liquid fire on a man and cooking him where he stands.
Why were flamethrowers ever allowed?
Grayson Flores
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Camden Cook
Where the hell do you put the bayonet?
Jonathan Robinson
Ain't war hell?
Colton White
The whole concept of war is crazy when you think about but humanity is really good at it. Think of a flame thrower as nothing more than another medium for your canvas.
Jacob Turner
Fire has been a weapon since before history.
Lincoln Hernandez
Why is killing people even allowed?
Is that not the craziest and cruelest way to treat a human being there is?
The whole concept is pretty nuts when you step back and think about it, ending an entire life in an instant.
Noah Ross
That's beautiful user
Ryan Carter
> (You) (OP)
>Why is killing people even allowed?
>Is that not the craziest and cruelest way to treat a human being there is?
>The whole concept is pretty nuts when you step back and think about it, ending an entire life in an instant.
alright you high school tier philosopher, why have any rules of war at all then? While I agree the concept of having rules in war is somewhat absurd they exist, so my point is if certain bore guns are banned and if certain gases and chemical and biological weapons are banned, if torture is banned why is burning a man alive on the battlefield not banned?
It seems inconsistent
Dylan Garcia
Does anyone even use flamethrowers anymore besides the chinese
John Sanchez
They're more useful than cruel.
William Thompson
So has assrape, but we've outlawed that
Bentley Jones
Dying is dying, there are no two ways about it. Best for the weapons to be so frightening and devastating that nobody uses them.
Jacob Gonzalez
Invent a better way to deal with these ill wait
Blake Phillips
Uhhh any sort of rocket?
Charles Evans
Bigot
Jack Morgan
too expensive concrete is too thick try again
Mason Powell
a rocket that carrying explosive ordinance
James Cruz
This is why you will not make it, OP: because you have convinced yourself that war can be fought with half measures.
Michael Adams
we dont need permission to set people on fire
Bentley Myers
GAS! Or Artillery! Or Bombs!
Thomas Lewis
>sneak up at night
>slowly pour pre-prepared barrels of your months-old marinated shit and piss through the slit in the pill box
>Dudes have no choice but to leave the box and investigate
>be waiting with a Single Action Army and katana sword combo
>slice and shoot them
>sneak into pillbox and place C4 charge
>exfiltrate
EZPZ
Samuel Hughes
Implying that burning people to death is the cruelest infantry weapon there is. Would you like to take a sip from a modern country's bar selection of interesting viral cocktails, then watch your intestines liquidify over the next two weeks?
Easton Gomez
Dis nigga right here been watching too much 24
Daniel Williams
Dis nigga reads. I know, must be a shocka.
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Jordan Richardson
If you see somebody with a flamethrower approaching your position, you will probably weigh your options and surrender. In a war in which POWs are treated somewhat acceptably, a flamethrower is a good weapon to not have to kill or wound people at all.
It's the ultimate "I didn't sign up for this shit" weapon. And sure, it's brutal when it's actually been used for effect, but then again, so is a gut shot, laying in a ditch for 45 minutes under agonizing pain until your insides are finally self-digested enough to let you die, or shrapnel in all the wrong places or mining the shit out of no man's land or many other ways of trying to make you leave your position.
The bonus is that the psychological effect is immediate and not a constant wear-down.
Cooper Rodriguez
Man dats a real big shocka y'all
Blake Baker
Not sure if it's true, but I read that if an enclosed bunker or tunnel gets flamed, the occupants die really really fast from asphyxiation. Also the presence of flamers on the field is likely to really depress defenders morale and they might just give up their bunker when the flame units start striking. Like the a-bomb or any terrifying force, flamers might actually save lives rather than protract a fight.
Aiden Myers
When you go to war with another nation, thinking about enemy soldier's well-being shouldn't be at the top of your priority list, go back to tumblr you turbo-tranny.
Camden Flores
The reason flamethrowers are not used much any more is that the wielders instantly becomes a priority target as soon as they are seen. And the riflemen of today are a lot more precise than the riflemen of WW1, what with MOA1 and optics. The role the flamethrowers did are now filled by RPGs at a greater range than the man carried flamethrowers ever offered, with more precision, and with less risk of engulfing the wielder and his ten closest mates in a fiery kaboom.
Robert Jenkins
>merely question a weapon that burns people alive
>get called a turbo tranny
Never change, Jow Forums
Jacob Anderson
Fucking a' right it is.
Nicholas Peterson
>Why were flamethrowers ever allowed?
>craziest and cruelest infantry weapon there is?
warfare is cruel....you sounds like a communist faggot....git off muh board catamite!
Zachary Bell
>Uhhh any sort of rocket?
dumb ass
Oliver Ross
They are basically neccessary for tunnels and bunkers
Luke Brown
>WWII rockets
>efficient at neutralizing reinforced bunkers
Yeah no
Bentley Reed
airstrike
Gavin Edwards
>airstrike
napalm airstrike
nigger....
Joseph Hughes
Because it kills the other guy more quickly and efficiently than an projectile, if it gives me a edge over the enemy I`ll proudly use it
Liam Anderson
We got you mate
Kayden Scott
>The whole concept of war is crazy
No it isn't.